Ekhaatvensters said:
Im joining the opera brigade
Heh, funny how life works: I've come
from Opera back in the day, to being a Ff fanboi. That said, I do keep both on my system but I live in Ff these days and have Opera around ..now mostly 'because'. To give Opera its due, IIRC they ARE the ones who pioneered
MDI (multiple open tabs in one window), mouse gestures and session persistence/recovery between app restarts. But, and this is strictly personal taste, because I'm a keyboard junkie (I alt-d for the address line, ctrl-enter for .com sites, shift-enter for .net, etc.) Opera does things in a way that drive me totally round the bend *wail.gnash.fume*, where Ff lets me work the way I want to.
opera actually has features, not exstentions to update and made by random developers that go out of date and have problems.
But it's that very diversity that makes the Ff (viral) space thrive where the Opera (yes, even them) corporate culture and direction comparitively staid. I mean, let's face it: Opera corp. (ultimately) has
management 
that decides on what direction to take. In the Ff ecology however, it's anything goes ..and often, anything
does go ..and this is A Good Thing(tm).
That said, case in point: from the
Official Google Blog:
What could be worse than forgetting to bookmark the obscure page you found that maps out the perfect walking tour of Venice? Having bookmarked it on the computer sitting on your desk back at home, 6000 miles away, instead of on the laptop you brought along. Or how about the frustration of being on a new computer and not remembering your passwords because your browser on your old computer automatically filled them in for you?
These sorts of frustrations inspired us to build a Firefox extension that keeps your browser settings for all your computers in sync.
Google Browser Sync unifies your bookmarks, history, saved passwords, and persistent cookies across all the computers where you install it. It also remembers which tabs and windows you had open when you last closed any of your browsers and gives you a chance to reopen them. We think you'll enjoy how it handles sync conflicts and "just works," enabling you to bring your browser with you everywhere.
..so where's the (built in)
Opera functionality to beat this then?
edit: here's a
case in point. Here's a tut from the guy that gave us BugMeNot (now
there's something you're unlikely to see ok'd by 'damagement' in some corp!).
A teaser:
Everyone has a good idea at one time or another to implement a new feature in a web browser. Well, with the goodness that is Mozilla Firefox, now you can do just that. You need to have a vague understanding of XUL and Javascript, but you certainly don’t need to be a master of either. When I started, I knew nothing about either one, really. I had seen some bookmarklets here and there, and tried to figure out just how they worked. Well, that’s how I made my first extension, BugMeNot.
..and if anyone picks up on this, I'd LOVE an extension that allows me to use keyboard shortcuts that expand on the built-in ctrl-enter (.com), shift-enter (.net) and ctrl-shift-enter(.org) so I could use a keycombo (say shift-z-enter for .co.za sites ..and that kind of thing in general for other country specific sites)
